What does Sleepyhead mean?

Passion Pit: Sleepyhead Meaning

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Sleepyhead Lyrics

And everything is going to beat
And everything is going to beat
And everything is going to

And you said, it was like fire around the brim
Burning solid, burning thin, the burning rim
Like stars burning holes right through the...

  1. anonymous
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    Aug 1st 2020 !⃝

    "My beard grew down to the floor, and out through the door."

    Is one of the few lyrics I had zero problem interpreting.

    He grew older and left.

  2. anonymous
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    May 22nd 2018 !⃝

    Maybe a child having a nightmare

  3. anonymous
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    Mar 10th 2018 !⃝

    Perhaps it's cancer

  4. anonymous
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    Dec 3rd 2017 !⃝

    To me it sounds like someone watching someone die (maybe get taken off life support) in a hospital room surrounded by that person's friends and family. Sleepy head is just a sad but easier way for the guy to think about it because maybe dying is just like sleeping.

  5. anonymous
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    Mar 3rd 2016 !⃝

    I think it's about someone in a coma.

  6. anonymous
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    May 20th 2014 !⃝

    I think this song is basically about the dreamscape.
    With so many weird things, like, "My beard grew down to the floor, and out through the door." It's pretty obvious it's about a very strange dream.


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